Re: [RFC WIP 2/3] rust: sync: Add dma_fence abstractions

[Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com>]

I haven't gone through this fully yet. I meant to today, but I ended up
needing way more time to explain some of my review comments w/r/t some
ww_mutex bindings for rust then I was expecting. But I do already have some
comments worth reading below:

On Tue, 2025-11-18 at 14:25 +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
> 
> +
> +/// Container for driver data which the driver gets back in its callback once the fence gets
> +/// signalled.
> +#[pin_data]
> +pub struct DmaFenceCb<T: DmaFenceCbFunc> {
> +    /// C struct needed for the backend.
> +    #[pin]
> +    inner: Opaque<bindings::dma_fence_cb>,
> +    /// Driver data.
> +    #[pin]
> +    pub data: T,

It's entirely possible I've just never seen someone do this before but - is
are we actually able to make pinned members of structs `pub`? I would have
thought that wouldn't be allowed (especially if `data` was exposed as just
`T`, since a user could then move it pretty easily and break the pinning
guarantee).

…snip…

> +    }
> +
> +    /// # Safety
> +    ///
> +    /// `ptr`must be a valid pointer to a [`DmaFence`].
> +    unsafe fn dec_ref(ptr: NonNull<Self>) {
> +        // SAFETY: `ptr` is never a NULL pointer; and when `dec_ref()` is called
> +        // the fence is by definition still valid.
> +        let fence = unsafe { (*ptr.as_ptr()).inner.get() };
> +
> +        // SAFETY: Valid because `fence` was created validly above.
> +        unsafe { bindings::dma_fence_put(fence) }
> +    }
> +}
> +
> +impl<T> DmaFence<T> {
> +    // TODO: There could be a subtle potential problem here? The LLVM compiler backend can create
> +    // several versions of this constant. Their content would be identical, but their addresses
> +    // different.
> +    const OPS: bindings::dma_fence_ops = Self::ops_create();

oh no, not you too!!! D:

I can answer this question - yes, `OPS` definitely won't have a unique memory
address. Whether that's an issue or not depends on if you actually need to
check what pointer a `DmaFence` has its `dma_fence_ops` set to and compare it
against another. If not though, it's probably fine.

JFYI: we've got a whole discussion about this as I hit this exact same problem
in KMS where we actually do sometimes need to compare against a mode object's
vtable pointer (and I believe Lina also hit this issue ages ago with gem
objects):

https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/291566-Library/topic/Extending.20vtable.20macro.20to.20provide.20unique.20address/with/447442017


Unfortunately it is very much a stalled conversation: as far as I'm aware
Miguel hasn't had the time to successfully get syn2 into the kernel, which I
believe that we need in order to properly solve this issue. In the mean time
I've been working around it in KMS by just not allowing users to have multiple
implementations of whatever `T` is (`DriverConnector`, `DriverCrtc`, etc.).

See also:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/items/constant-items.html#r-items.const.intro

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> +
> +    /// Signal the fence. This will invoke all registered callbacks.
> +    pub fn signal(&self) -> Result {
> +        // SAFETY: `self` is refcounted.
> +        let ret = unsafe { bindings::dma_fence_signal(self.as_raw()) };
> +        if ret != 0 {
> +            return Err(Error::from_errno(ret));
> +        }

You can just use to_result()

> +
> +        if self.signalling {
> +            // SAFETY: `dma_fence_end_signalling()` works on global lockdep data. The only
> +            // parameter is a boolean passed by value.
> +            unsafe { bindings::dma_fence_end_signalling(self.signalling_cookie) };
> +        }
> +
> +        Ok(())
> +    }
> +
> +    /// Register a callback on a [`DmaFence`]. The callback will be invoked in the fence's
> +    /// signalling path, i.e., critical section.
> +    ///
> +    /// Consumes `data`. `data` is passed back to the implemented callback function when the fence
> +    /// gets signalled.
> +    pub fn register_callback<U: DmaFenceCbFunc + 'static>(&self, data: impl PinInit<U>) -> Result {
> +        let cb = DmaFenceCb::new(data)?;
> +        let ptr = cb.into_foreign() as *mut DmaFenceCb<U>;
> +        // SAFETY: `ptr` was created validly directly above.
> +        let inner_cb = unsafe { (*ptr).inner.get() };
> +
> +        // SAFETY: `self.as_raw()` is valid because `self` is refcounted, `inner_cb` was created
> +        // validly above and was turned into a ForeignOwnable, so it won't be dropped. `callback`
> +        // has static life time.
> +        let ret = unsafe {
> +            bindings::dma_fence_add_callback(
> +                self.as_raw(),
> +                inner_cb,
> +                Some(DmaFenceCb::<U>::callback),
> +            )
> +        };
> +        if ret != 0 {
> +            return Err(Error::from_errno(ret));
> +        }
> +        Ok(())
> +    }
> +
> +    fn as_raw(&self) -> *mut bindings::dma_fence {
> +        self.inner.get()
> +    }
> +}

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Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat

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